The Colorado Smokescreen

Protecting Colorado communities and forests from wildfire disinformation

Wildfire-Forests Strategy Sessions

Monthly Zoom calls for Colorado residents concerned about the unscientific forest “fuel reduction”–including clearcutting and old-growth logging–impacting millions of acres of Colorado’s forests.

Email coloradosmokescreen@proton.me or call/text (720) 615-4843 for more info.

All Colorado

First Mondays @ 5 pm

Strategy call for all Colorado residents on “fuel reduction” impacts to National Forests, State Lands, Open Space Parks, and Municipal Mountain Parks across the state.

Jefferson County

2nd Thursdays @ 5 pm

Strategy call for Jefferson County residents on “fuel reduction” impacts to Jefferson County Open Space Parks.

Boulder County

3rd Mondays @ 5 pm

Strategy call for Boulder County residents on “fuel reduction” impacts to Boulder County Open Space Parks.

Denver County

4th Thursdays @ 5 pm

Strategy call for Denver County residents on “fuel reduction” impacts to Denver Mountain Parks.

Conservation Colorado, Western Resource Advocates, and The Nature Conservancy Opposed Bill That Would’ve Funded Home Hardening to Protect Low-Income, Elderly, and Disabled Residents from Wildfire

Leadership from “working lands” organizations Conservation Colorado, Western Resource Advocates, and The Nature Conservancy testified alongside industry and government logging interests to help axe a statehouse bill that would’ve routed a small portion of the state’s “wildfire mitigation” funding towards proven home hardening protections through grants to low-income residents, along with seniors and those with…

3 MINUTE ACTION: Ask Gov. Polis to Appoint Scientists and Conservationists to “Pine Beetle Task Force” 

We hope you’ll consider taking 3 minutes to please contact Colorado Governor Jared Polis at (303) 866-2471 or Governorpolis@state.co.us to ask that he appoint independent scientists (without financial conflicts of interest) and conservationists (who don’t promote public lands extraction) to the “Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force.” The Colorado Department of Natural Resources’ and Gov. Jared Polis’…

Twenty Colorado Conservation Groups Question “Big Green” Support for Ballot Measure to Ramp Up Public Lands Logging

Twenty Colorado conservation groups signed a letter posing twelve questions to Conservation Colorado and Western Resource Advocates about their endorsement (along with The Nature Conservancy) of a ballot measure that would route a tax on sporting goods to further fund already unprecedented levels of “fuel reduction” logging on public lands in the state by framing…

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22 Colorado Conservation Groups ask Elected Officials to Engage with Science on ‘Wildfire Fuel Reduction’ Logging

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